Do not Leave Your Page Blank

An student posed a very interesting challenge to the examiner - he left his answer sheet blank and wrote at the last page - pass me if you can.

If this joke brought a smile on your face, just pause and ponder - very often, we do the same with our lives. Pressures of modern times do not leave us with any free time to enjoy life, and the most common regret people have in old age is that they could not live their life fully.

मेरा जीवन कोरा कागज़ कोरा ही रह गया

Think carefully, it is not due to external pressures, but it is our own choice not to live life fully. As we start our life, we have a blank page – like a blank answer sheet in a test. During our lifetime, we have the job of filling up the page with the story of our life. It’s our story, so we get to decide what happens in it - not just have life happen to us. We can choose to live life in the way we want, not just go through it.

How can we create an inspiring and impactful story for ourselves? Imagine you are a writer working on an article for a magazine. As you sit down to write it, first of all you need to decide the topic you want to discuss. Once you have chosen the topic, your thoughts get focused on that specific topic, ideas start flowing, and your writing becomes coherent and inspiring. In the absence of such a focus, your thoughts and ideas may drift here and there, and you may find it hard to complete the article or come out with something which is not interesting to read.

Similarly, you need to discover your mission or purpose in life to get the most out of your time. Once we are clear about our purpose, we will know what are the most important or essential things in our life. If we consciously devote time to what is important for us, we will make our life beautiful and will no longer feel that we don’t have time to enjoy life.  

So, what we fill on the page of our life is our own deliberate choice. Don't just drift away in life. Choose to live a purposeful life. Decide what is important for you and focus on it. Fill up your page with activity, hard work, achievement, laughter, love, kindness, friendship. Don't leave this page blank and expect God to give you happiness.